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The Java EE 7 Platform and Support for the PaaS Model 0. Introduction NIST [1] defines cloud computing as follows: Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. It calls out the following five essential characteristics of cloud computing: on demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, measured service. It offers the following definition of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS): The capability provided to the consumer is to deploy onto the cloud infrastructure consumer-created or acquired applications created using programming languages and tools supported by the provider. The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, or storage, but has control over the deployed applications and possibly application hosting environment configurations. Additionally, it offers the following definition of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS): The capability provided to the consumer is to use the provider’s applications running on a cloud infrastructure. The applications are accessible from various client devices through a thin client interface such as a web browser (e.g., web-based email). The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, storage, or even individual application capabilities, with the possible exception of limited user-specific application configuration settings. It is a goal of Java EE 7 to add to the platform support for the PaaS model as well as a limited form of the SaaS model while preserving as much as possible the established Java EE programming model and the considerabl